Figure 13, taken from Spiegelberg, shows a large fibroid blocking the pelvis of a pregnant woman.
Haultain gives three examples of pseudocyesis, the first with no apparent cause, the second due to carcinoma of the uterus, while in the third there was a small fibroid in the anterior wall of the uterus.
Eastman reports the removal of a fibroidtumor of the uterus weighing 60 pounds.
Fibroid pneumonia is an inflammation of the interstitial connective tissue lying between the lobules of the lungs, and is very slow in its course, producing shrinking and atrophy of the lungs.
On parts of the body other than the face, the disease is even more chronic, and is often attended with a considerable production of dense fibrous tissue--the so-called fibroid lupus.
Fibroid tumours of the uterus are described with myoma.
Clinical interest attaches to that form of slowly growing fibro-sarcoma--the recurrent fibroid of Paget--which is most frequently met with in the muscles of the abdominal wall.
I have elsewhere recorded briefly a case in which I removed the uterus from a woman forty years of age, which contained a fibroid as big as an ostrich’s egg.
The operation is necessarily limited to fibroid uteri not exceeding in size a fœtal head.
I have for some years dropped the name of myoma for these common uterine tumours, preferring to apply the term fibroid in a generic sense to all encapsuled tumours of the uterus.
It occasionally happens that a fibroid situated near the uterine cornu will grow in such a manner that it widely separates the ovarian ligament, the Fallopian tube, and the round ligament from each other as shown in Fig.
The last fact to mention is that one patient, from whom a submucous fibroid had been enucleated from the cavity of the uterus (hysterotomy), died four years later from cancer arising in the body of the uterus (see p.
Occasionally the passage of a fœtus is barred by tumours growing from the uterus, especially a large cervix fibroid, or a fibroid growing from the lower segment of the uterine wall.
In the early stages of this change the fibroid exhibits the colour in streaks, but as the pregnancy advances it permeates the whole tumour.
The variety of fibroid most likely to lead to operation, under the impression that it is an ovarian cyst, is an interstitial fibroid which becomes painful in consequence of undergoing red degeneration.
Temporary Uretero-vaginal Fistula after Panhysterectomy for Fibroidof the Uterus.
Olshausen once removed a gravid uterus under the impression that it contained a cystic fibroid which would obstruct delivery.
On the question of fibroid tumours he had come to the conclusion that these were not a cause but in a sense a consequence of sterility.
My case was that of a lady aged about forty, who for two years was under the care of a homoeopathic doctor for some trouble, I don't know what; then two years under the care of another homoeopathic doctor for a fibroid of the uterus.
Then she came under my care with a fibroidas large as a fetus at full term.
I have since witnessed equal success in hemorrhage from uterine fibroid where the flow was controlled, and the growth was greatly reduced in size before the age of the individual would naturally produce these changes.
Menstruation may aggravate goitre, uterinefibroid tumours, skin diseases, and affections of the blood vessels.
Fibroid tumours of the uterus, complicating pregnancy, occur in about 0.
Alcoholic poison in the circulation has led to fibroid degeneration of the muscular elements of the heart and made them incapable of proper function, or at least has greatly hampered their action, and the heart ceases to beat.
Electrical treatment will destroy the life of ovarian and fibroid tumors if applied early and after the improved methods so long used at our Institution.
On examination, we found an inter-mural fibroid tumor, represented in Figs.
In December, 1890, I went to you, after suffering five years with two fibroid tumors of the uterus.
I have in mind the wife of a physician whose menopause was delayed for some ten years as a consequence of a good-sized fibroid growth.
Another important cause of profuse menstruation is the presence of a fibroid tumor or other neoplasm which brings an increased blood supply to the uterus and a consequent greater elimination at the menstrual epoch.
This soon brings them to operation, though very often there has been no increase in size of the fibroid tumor and there is no more reason for operation than there was when they were first examined.
In unmarried women the development of a small fibroid with its reflex disturbances is sure to be followed by excessive reaction in many ways.
I have had under observation during the last two years a patient in whom the diagnosis of a fibroid brought this unfortunate result.
I was afflicted with a fibroid tumour which weighed not less than fifty pounds, attended by a continuous hemorrhage for eleven years.
The fibroid polypus is only found in adults, and is composed of dense connective-tissue elements and blood-vessels.
In the pulmonary blood-vessels, as in pulmonary emphysema, chronic pleurisy, and fibroid induration of the lungs.
Rokitansky's[4] description of fibroid induration of the stomach, although brief, is accurate.
The diaphragm, especially that part of it underlying the pericardial sacs, had undergone marked fibroid degeneration.
There are two varieties of these--the gelatinoid or soft, and thefibroid or firm.
Chronic interstitial gastritis or fibroid induration of the stomach cannot be distinguished with any certainty from cancer of the stomach.
Fibroid induration of the stomach; Hypertrophy of the walls of the stomach; Chronic interstitial gastritis; Sclerosis of the stomach; Plastic linitis.
So far as I know, no autopsies of cases showing these clinical differences have been reported, although there have been found in diabetes, distinct from the usual cheesy foci, fibroid changes with small smooth-walled cavities.
Mercurial treatment generally causes a marked improvement unless the inflammation has already resulted in the development of a new fibroid formation, in which case it would be likely to remain unaffected by any form of treatment.
Lauenstein resected the pylorus unsuccessfully for what appears to have been an ulcer of the pylorus with fibroid induration around it (ibid.
The symptoms ofFibroid Tumor given in your little book accurately describe my case, so I write to you for advice.
A distressing case of Fibroid Tumor, which baffled the skill of Boston doctors.
Caseation forms cheesy masses, which may soften into tubercular pus, may calcify, and may become encapsulated byfibroid tissue.
If the stains be wetted and softened by these fluids, and then examined, white and red corpuscles and fibroid particles will be observed.
Fibroid phthists, a form of pulmonary consumption associated with the formation of fibrous tissue in the lungs, and the gradual atrophy of the lungs, from the pressure due to the contraction of this tissue.
Defn: Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.
Fibroid degeneration, a form of degeneration in which organs or tissues are converted into fibroid tissue.
Fibroid pneumonia is an inflammation of the interstitial connective tissue lying between the lobules of the lungs, and is very slow in its course, producing shrinking and atrophy of the lungs.
Henry watched her takeoff from the roof of their two-story fibroid house and went back to the dining room.
Henry strode around the room, hitting the fibroid floor like a prehistoric monster on a sandpaper bridge.
The climax was reached when a physician informed me, after weeks of treatment, that I had a fibroid tumor, which required an operation.
I was afflicted with a fibroidtumor which weighed not less than fifty pounds, attended by a continuous hemorrhage for eleven years.
Fibroid degeneration of muscles following myositis has already been mentioned.
In course of time there develops cardiac insufficiency with fibroid degeneration of the myocardium.
Muscular fixation may be due to rheumatic or syphilitic myositis, and this is sometimes followed by fibroid degeneration of the muscles, rendering the fixation permanent.
Fibroid polypi and other new growths must be removed.
In contradistinction to fibroid tumours it frequently arises after the menopause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fibroid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: capillary; fibrous; filamentary; funicular; hairlike; hairy; ropy; silky; stringy; threadlike; wiry
